I've now had a chance to try out the UML driver for libvirt. My host platform was CentOS 5 and the guest CentOS 4, with a 2.6.27.2 kernel configured as 'make defconfig ARCH=um'. I used uml:///session as an unprivileged user.
The CVS snapshot tarball on the libvirt.org ftp site was out of date: use the cvs command to fetch the source. My host system hadn't been set up for UML before so virsh didn't work until I'd: created the directory ~/.uml (which doesn't exist if you haven't run a UML instance yet); installed the UML utilities (because libvirt checks that uml_mconsole exists, even though it doesn't use it). Once I'd figured that out I was able to start a virtual machine from virsh and see it using the list command. However, connecting to the guest's console was very unreliable (No console available for domain). Also, all attempts to shut down the guest from virsh failed (libvir: Remote error : socket closed unexpectedly). Once that had happened the domain was no longer shown by the list command. BTW, is there a way to disconnect from the guest console? Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
